Comment by hermitShell
10 hours ago
The sane thing would be to ban Excel and promote SQLite. Excel is often used for tabulated text (issue tracking) not calculations. Perfect use case for a relational db
10 hours ago
The sane thing would be to ban Excel and promote SQLite. Excel is often used for tabulated text (issue tracking) not calculations. Perfect use case for a relational db
Excel has sheets for tables, columns and rows, primary keys (UNIQUE), foreign key references etc if you squint.
It doesn't require you use all of that properly, but it's there.
Excel is made for calculations. But if you make it hard to make a DB, people will abuse Excel as a DB.
I mean, it might have been at first, but Microsoft figured out that the majority of users for lists without formulas in 1993 and they've strategized around that. IMHO, the biggest concession to this was when they added Power Query to core Excel in 2016.
or reimplement excel with sqlite as a backend :-D
BTW sqlite can run SQL queries on CSV files with relatively simple one-liner command...
and excel has gui for forms
Only where VBA is available. Not available for MacOs versions if I'm correct?